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* Inverted by Steve Jackson Games's ''Munchkin'', in which every merchandising tchotchke -- even free stuff, even t-shirts and bobble-heads -- grant some in-game bonus.
* Inverted by Steve Jackson Games's ''Munchkin'', in which every merchandising tchotchke -- even free stuff, even t-shirts and bobble-heads -- grant some in-game bonus.
* The first ''[[Digimon]]'' CCG, Digital Card Battle, had a set of promotional cards released to coincide with the North American release of ''[[Compilation Movie|Digimon: The Movie]]''. Two cards released were [[Digimon Adventure|Infermon and Diablomon]], from the second movie. Diablomon evolves from Infermon, while Infermon evolves from Chrysalimon; Chrysalimon (and its pre-evolution Keramon) didn't get a card at all until a few expansions later, making these two cards completely useless until then.
* The first ''[[Digimon]]'' CCG, Digital Card Battle, had a set of promotional cards released to coincide with the North American release of ''[[Compilation Movie|Digimon: The Movie]]''. Two cards released were [[Digimon Adventure|Infermon and Diablomon]], from the second movie. Diablomon evolves from Infermon, while Infermon evolves from Chrysalimon; Chrysalimon (and its pre-evolution Keramon) didn't get a card at all until a few expansions later, making these two cards completely useless until then.
* For ''[[Hellgate London]]'' multiplayer subscribers, Flagship Studios touted a rather small selection of pets that could [[Randomly Drops|Randomly Drop]]. They had marginal to no use, and amounted to [[Small Annoying Creature|Small Annoying Creatures]] who made the [[Most Annoying Sound|Most Annoying Sounds]].
* For ''[[Hellgate:London]]'' multiplayer subscribers, Flagship Studios touted a rather small selection of pets that could [[Randomly Drops|Randomly Drop]]. They had marginal to no use, and amounted to [[Small Annoying Creature|Small Annoying Creatures]] who made the [[Most Annoying Sound|Most Annoying Sounds]].
* ''[[Runescape]]'' has an in-game flagstaff given to everyone who bought a ticket to [[Rune Fest]], an event similar to Blizzard's [[Blizz Con]]. It doesn't give any bonuses but it can set off fireworks (which normally only appear when you level up).
* ''[[Runescape]]'' has an in-game flagstaff given to everyone who bought a ticket to [[Rune Fest]], an event similar to Blizzard's [[Blizz Con]]. It doesn't give any bonuses but it can set off fireworks (which normally only appear when you level up).
** Not necessarily promotional, but try mentioning the "party hat" to most [[Runescape]] players. Party hats were paper crowns found inside Christmas Crackers that you pulled with another player. The Cracker popped open, and one player got a random item, the other player got the party hat. This was way back to 2001, so as of now, July 2010, the current price of the most expensive color, a blue party hat, is about 530 ''million'' gold.
** Not necessarily promotional, but try mentioning the "party hat" to most [[Runescape]] players. Party hats were paper crowns found inside Christmas Crackers that you pulled with another player. The Cracker popped open, and one player got a random item, the other player got the party hat. This was way back to 2001, so as of now, July 2010, the current price of the most expensive color, a blue party hat, is about 530 ''million'' gold.
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